Who didn’t love playing dodgeball while they were growing up? The opportunity to hit other kids with a ball and call it athletics; I used to love those days in gym class when I could load up and fire a…
I am one of those people who didn’t become a fan of the X – Files until a couple of years ago, when I started watching the series on DVD. In all honesty, I still haven’t watched all nine seasons…
For centuries, literary figures including Leo Tolstoy, Henry David Thoreau, Mark, Twain Jack London and countless others have written about the importance of nature and the importance of living off the land. In turn, many people have taken these written…
From Staten Island, New York, Wu-Tang Clan is one of the most critically and commercially successful hip hop groups of all time. Their success and influence is only partially due to their rap music. While Wu-Tang Clan consisted of nine…
I’m old enough to remember when the idea of making a satirical movie about the Vietnam War would have been considered to be the height of bad taste. Times have definitely changed. The Vietnam War seems to be in the…
Based on a short (32 pages), illustrated children’s book by Chris Van Allsburg, directed by Robert Zemeckis, the guy behind such creative hits as Back to the Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Forrest Gump, and Contact, all of them filled…
Hollywood has enjoyed a long and storied lineage of animals in lead roles. Old Yeller, Lassie, Babe, and even Remmy the Rat from last year’s Ratatouille effortlessly capture the hearts of audiences everywhere with their often human-like personas, showing a…
Hollywood has enjoyed a long and storied lineage of animals in lead roles. Old Yeller, Lassie, Babe, and even Remmy the Rat from last year’s Ratatouille effortlessly capture the hearts of audiences everywhere with their often human-like persona’s, showing a…
Writer/director Bob Clark is probably best known to movie audiences as the writer/director of Porky’s (1982) and as the director of A Christmas Story (1983), for which he also wrote the screenplay with Jean Shepherd. Despite these forays into teenage…
A bonafide movie star for over thirty years of his working life, Gary Cooper is considered by most film historians to one of the more iconic movie stars. Fans loved him because they felt they could relate to him. As…